He sounded truly miserable, much worse than when he had swallowed the pen.

Sansa tried her best to sound miserable as she bid him a good evening.

There might be a little seasonal affective disorder or poetic license involved, but regardless, that sounds miserable.

"Lonely Man," the perp said, and indeed he sounded miserable.

When I spoke with Ted earlier, he sounded utterly miserable.

"I haven't a clue," Shirley said, and sounded thoroughly miserable.

The cold made his nose run: he sounded congested and miserable.

He sounded so miserable that Sophie felt quite sorry for him.

I know she is,' Pete said, sounding miserable.

"I'm not doing that again," he says the next morning, sounding miserable.